Statistician/Data Analysis/Office Assistant/Receptionist

Sean Wrona

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Ithaca, NY 14850 Phone: 607-***-****

Experience

Minimax Consulting, Providence, RI October 2008 – November 2009

Independent contract work for corporate and research clients using SPSS and SAS statistical software packages to run statistical analyses (regressions, ANOVAs, MANOVAs, correlations, validity/reliability analyses) on client data.

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Master of Professional Studies Applied Statistics, Class of 2008, 3.26 GPA.

BA Economics, Class of 2007, 3.27 GPA, Dean’s List Spring 2004.

Skills

Computer skills (including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, SAS, SPSS, JMP, Java, JavaScript, C++, Visual Basic, MATLAB. Typing speed 150 wpm with 97% accuracy.

Publications & Class Projects

“Assessing the Effects of Medicare Reform” The Visible Hand, Volume XIII, Issue II. Spring 2006.

This article discussed the effects of South Carolina governor Mark Sanford’s proposal to reform Medicare by replacing it with personal health accounts that could be used to purchase private health care.

“Do Public School Spending Differentials Affect Graduation Rates?” The Visible Hand, Volume XIV, Issue I. Fall 2006.

I ran and analyzed a regression model using New York state governmental data which discussed the effect of average spending per student on high school graduation rates, holding school population, student/teacher ratio, and suspension rate constant.

Empirical project, Intro to Econometrics May 2006

In my final homework assignment for this class, I wrote a series of SAS programs to analyze the relationship between sleep and the amount of time worked as well as the relationship between exchange rates and a company’s stock price, holding time constant and reported the results of these two analyses based on the SAS code I wrote.

Final project, Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences II December 2007

I analyzed the relationship between the average salary of graduates by college and US News & World Report academic prestige ratings, type of university (university vs. liberal arts college vs. regional college), affiliation of each university (public vs. private vs. parochial), fraternity participation rate, and number of computers per student, using the JMP statistical software package.

Statistical Consulting Spring 2008

I met with a Cornell statistical consultant and six clients with various levels of statistical knowledge and aid the consultant in giving advice on specific statistical problems.

Empirical project, Applied Statistical Analysis Spring 2008

Wrote SAS programs for Prof. John Bunge, head of the MPS program at Cornell in order to estimate populations of species.

Activities

Webmaster, race-database.com June 2007 – Present

Entered complete results for all 600+ Champ Car and Indy Car races from 1979 to present, and over 500 Formula One races, as well as all 3,800+ drivers to have entered a Formula One, Champ Car, Indy Car, or NASCAR Nextel Cup race. Inputted over 100,000 rows of data into an SQL database, and coded the website using PHP to efficiently display the database queries online.

Statistician, Mensa Scrabble-by-Mail SIG November 1999 – April 2003

Organized a 15-20 page column (greatly expanding a column that was about 5 pages long in earlier times) in a bimonthly newsletter including commentary, game scores (needed to compile ratings), several statistical categories such as upsets, winning streaks, a “game championship” which evaluated players in each game series (held every four months). Built a database in Microsoft Access analyzing over a decade of Scrabble data.

Affiliations

American Statistical Association, 2001 – present, Cornell Economics Society, September 2005 – June 2007

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